By Mike Walker

Catherine de Medici, orphaned within weeks of her birth, was raised in a nunnery, then sold into a political marriage in the French House of Valois. Her husband is now King Henri II and Catherine has secured her position by producing an heir, but religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics is on the rise across Europe, and when Henri dies it is left to Catherine to try to hold together the bundle of sticks that is France.

CAST
Catherine de Medici - Catrin Aaron
Silvestri - Julian Lewis Jones
Diane de Poitiers - Juliette Aubrey
King Henri II - Arthur Hughes
Guise - Joel MacCormack
Nurse - Heather Craney
Isabelle - Nia Gandhi
Coligny - Ian Dunnett Jnr
Le Conde - Matthew Bulgo
Cardinal Guise - Tom Mumford
Margot - Poppy Almond

Series Creator: Mike Walker
Sound: Catherine Robinson
Director: John Norton
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